Woody Harrelson is up for an Oscar this year for The Messenger, a movie about two soldiers in the U.S. Army's Casualty Notification service. You know, the men who knock on doors to deliver the awful news. It's a harrowing film which, at press time, has earned less than $1 million at the box office in twelve weeks. It got us thinking: What are the best low-earning films of the last five years? read more

Hoop Dreams premiered at Sundance in 1994, and became the festival's first documentary to achieve mainstream commercial success. In the process, it exposed a dirty little secret about the festival: The best films on view in Park City are always the docs. Here, a look back at five of the best to premiere at Sundance in the last decade. read more

Go ahead and blame Facebook for tempting me. As for why this list ended up so chauvinistically America-centric, that's not because I'm indifferent to international cinema. But even the most overrated foreign "classics" don't annoy me in the intimate way home-grown ones do. read more